§ Mr. D. GRENFELLasked the Secretary for Mines the number of claims for compensation for miner's nystagmus which were reported in each of the four preceding years; and whether he will institute a Commission of Inquiry into the causes of this disease, with the view of eliminating the industrial loss and the personal suffering consequent upon its prevalence in the mining industry?
§ Lieut.-Colonel LANE-FOXAccording to statistics furnished by the Home Office, the total number of workmen in receipt of compensation for nystagmus was 6,449 during 1919; 7,028 during 1920 and 6,717 during 1921. Statistics on this point were not collected for the year 1918. At the request of my advisers an expert Committee of Inquiry into the causes of nystagmus was set up by the Medical Research Council in 1920. The first Report of the Committee was published at the beginning of this year and the Committee is still at work.